Although this week did not have the big news like the announcement of the new expansion, Galactic Starfighter, we have had a few updates for some minor bugs. Earlier this week, marked the return of the Bounty Contract event on Oct. 15th. There have been a few adjustments to the event, so be sure to read the patch notes for the event. There was also the announcement of the Community Cantina event taking place at EA in San Francisco.

The Gray Secant is back! This means the Gree and their sponsored event on Ilum, along with Gree Reputation vendors. Some have voiced displeasure for the return of this event, and I can understand wanting new events, etc. However, in my opinion it is fairly easy missions, plenty of credits, not to mention the ability to raise your reputation, and another way get some daily commendations. We also have got our first piece of news about “planned” service coming in Update 2.2!

Info on 2.2, Richie Branson new album, dev notes & more after the Jump…

SWTOR is making some changes to their security to help prevent accounts from being hijacked. Everyone will be required to sign-in to their account with their display name by April 2nd, 2013. This applies both to logging into the game and the SWTOR website. Phillip, who works for BioWare in security, has been answering players’ questions and concerns about this change in an ongoing thread on the SWTOR forums. I would urge you to read through the changes at the official post and then go read through Phillip’s posts. As a note, you can go ahead and start using your display name now to login to the game and SWTOR website.

New Community Cantina locations, dev notes, SWTOR fan fiction after the Jump…

Kathy’s back from being out of town and we celebrate by having Roxanne compare things to Nazis and spread baseless rumors about who’s picking up the tab at the fansite cantina event. Speaking of cantinas, we hope actual social spaces like cantinas will replace fake social spaces like the mailbox in our Community Buzz discussion.

Fact or Fiction: Can you pick out the confirmed fact from the tall tales? This week’s host challenge involves crew skills, class balance, and PAX East.Continue reading »